חֲלוֹםchălôwm

dream

Pronunciation: khal-ome' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2472

Meanings

1. ordinary dream of sleep (Job 7:14; Job 20:8; Psalms 73:20)

2. dreams with prophetic meaning, the lowest grade of prophecy

a. had understanding, dreams (Genesis 20:3; Genesis 20:6; Genesis 31:10)

Same root

חָלַםchâlam · H2492properly, to bind firmly, i.e. (by implication) to be (causatively to make) plump; also (through the figurative sense of dumbness) to dream

Where it appears

Appears 65 times in the Bible.

Genesis 20:3 But that night God came to Abimelech in a dream and told him, “You are a dead man, for that woman you have taken is already married!”
Genesis 20:6 In the dream God responded, “Yes, I know you are innocent. That’s why I kept you from sinning against me, and why I did not let you touch her.
Genesis 31:10 “One time during the mating season, I had a dream and saw that the male goats mating with the females were streaked, speckled, and spotted.
Genesis 31:11 Then in my dream, the angel of God said to me, ‘Jacob!’ And I replied, ‘Yes, here I am.’
Genesis 31:24 But the previous night God had appeared to Laban the Aramean in a dream and told him, “I’m warning you—leave Jacob alone!”
Genesis 37:5 One night Joseph had a dream, and when he told his brothers about it, they hated him more than ever.

See every passage

Genesis 20:3, 20:6, 31:10, 31:11, 31:24, 37:5, 37:6, 37:8, 37:9, 37:10, 37:19, 37:20, 40:5, 40:8, 40:9, 40:16, 41:7, 41:8, 41:11, 41:12, 41:15, 41:17, 41:22, 41:25, 41:26, 41:32, 42:9
Numbers 12:6
Deuteronomy 13:1, 13:3, 13:5
Judges 7:13, 7:15
1 Samuel 28:6, 28:15
1 Kings 3:5, 3:15
Job 7:14, 20:8, 33:15
Psalms 73:20
Ecclesiastes 5:3, 5:7
Isaiah 29:7
Jeremiah 23:27, 23:28, 23:32, 27:9, 29:8
Daniel 1:17, 2:1, 2:2, 2:3
Joel 2:28
Zechariah 10:2

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).